Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane. They are aiding and abetting the destruction of the country. At some point, Republicans will beg Democrats to vote for Trumps next impeachment.
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats.
This is his plan: make every pick crazier than the previous pick so we forget the previous crazy pick.
Next up, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. 🤦
America is screwed!
That's why I will be wearing this "Happy to Be The Enemy Within!" shirt 👇
…so we forget the previous crazy pick and, amidst all the the outrage, overlook the more sinister ones — like Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Flooding the zone with shit continues.
These are the perfect people, if your goal is to destroy the government. But health? He want to destroy the health of the people too? But, but, but, if we stop making medicines, there will not be any for him either. Oh, I forgot... he doesn't know how to think anything through.
DJT, and his Flock of Deranged, will always be able to get the Medicines that they will need... Remember how DJT got COVID in 2020, was AirLifted out, received very restricted Experimental Medicines, and had a Team of over 10-Doctors.... DJT was back within a Week.. All at Tax-Payer Expense.... How many of Us would have those Benefits?
Heather, I share your concerns, however, becoming fearful will not solve our problems. We must start having more direct, in-person dialogue with folks we encounter and ask key questions: Why do you think a situation is so? What do you wish to see happen? How is this impacting your life? Dialogue can actually lead to friendship and consensus! We must never think we have a monoply on truth. Don't let today's events control your emotions. Take care--life is brief!
"Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane." Well thanks to Free Speech, you can say this but that doesn't make it true. The sentence is only nine words cast into a soup of quadrillions. Hope my old shirt fits.
This is part of a war against government, that began with that demented horse's ass Ronald Reagan. If government screws up, then any government must be bad, right? It's a pattern.
Why are Republicans so opposed to government? Simple, government collects taxes. Why did Adam Smith (in case you don't remember, he was the inventor of capitalism) so in favor of taxes? Because taxes would prevent people like Elon Musk from becoming so powerful that they would buy the government and distort the market.
Welcome to the new world of Socialism for the Rich, for what else is not paying your taxes than government welfare for the Rich?
I don't remember Ronnie being this awful or dumb!!! Yes, tax the super wealth at the same % I pay. In fact everyone should pay the same % to be fair, and equal.
Allow me to assist: Reagan is “the government IS the problem” guy. He’s the guy who set the wheels in motion to create the plutocracy that we live in now and laid the groundwork for Trump’s plan to destroy the administrative state. Does that help a little?
I agree, Reagan also deregulated corporations which started their exodus to China and tens of thousands of our factories closed. Reagan also led to the Bush dynasty which led to Iraq.... it goes on and on and here we are.
Penny, the flat tax is just bullshit. People need to pay a progressive tax. The more you make, the higher the PERCENTAGE tax you pay. Otherwise, everyone would pay what the poorest pay, i.e., 5-10%, and the country would collapse. But don't take my word for it, read Adam Smith and Thomas Piketty (you can skip Karl Marx).
My sister lived in Santa Barbara and they would go to his ranch. Took the whole police force to get them in place. Also I thought he was sick alot and Nancy was making his decisions. At least that was expressed by some.
If you look at the top photo in my latest Creatures and Characters post, you will see that it's appropriate. (This is not a plug for my Substack. I have 19 followers and will probably never have many more than that.)
And they DO, but mostly in the past, they wanted to make sure they could loot the economy, not crash and burn the whole thing. These bozos are just NUTS. Not even in the same league …
WTF is it with the Re-thug-licans? What kind of mental aberration drives them to want to lord it over our welfare and do us harm? Is malignant narcistic behavior part of their vetting process? I believe everyone subscribing to their madness needs to be assessed and placed under rigorous therapy.
Yes, remember Reagan's appalling cabinet with Ed Meese, Ann Gorsuch, James Watt, Bob Casey....But this is worse. You could pretend that Watt was not a fundamentalist lunatic.
Welcome to epidemics, disabilities from diseases like polio and measles, and lots of childhood deaths. Could it get any worse? It probably will, sadly.
Ditto. But, I'm still smarter & sharper than many of these Trump loyalists and I'm not ready to capitulate. Hope you aren't either. Community action is the goal.
Same and running financial scenarios in an attempt to have Plans A, B, C-Z in place. So far none of those plans will ensure my survival. Only comfort is that I will not be alone.
Trump and his minions are planning to kill us with chaos. They’re making us confused and worried about our health, our financial well-being and our children’s education. They’d like to turn neighbor against neighbor just as the Nazis did when even children were recruited to rat out their own family members for baseless accusations. Day by day this picture is getting uglier and Trump hasn’t even got to the White House yet. We must tune out all this gibberish and focus on how we can empower mass disobedience to this mad man’s whims to save our own lives and democracy.
Create hyper-local Mutual Aid networks. Solidarity, not charity. Share resources. Create Time Banks. Seek out the most vulnerable in your communities and learn their stories. Stay together.
If you recognize the point, you are unfortunately among the few. Most are in denial, most are unarmed, most plan to "endure" and will discover the reality too late to strike back
Oh, yeah, it will get worse. Trump's tariffs will cause hyper-inflation. The GOP's denial of climate change will cause more natural disasters, and he'll probably disband FEMA. Gaetz will proclaim that rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment are not crimes since he enjoys them so much. The new Stasi will arrest anyone who utters a word of defiance. And, no doubt, more wonderful events.
I forgot to add that Trump, Musk, and his "efficiency" department will end Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Prepare to see seniors dying in the streets.
I'm the proverbial grey-haired little old lady. My superpower is that they don't see me coming. I'm used to being underestimated and that gets me the upper hand. mwahaha! We have the strength of numbers, folks, so DO NOT DISPAIR, DO NOT PREEMPTIVELY CAPITULATE.
I have white hair, I'm told a very kindly face, on the chubby side, "nice and sweet" say acquaintances, underestimated all the damned time, and at 76 I can still hit what I'm aiming at. It's fun to watch their mouths drop open and hear the, "holy xxxx, did you see that?"
Sorry to be such a downer, but I live in Denver. A few years ago, disabled people met in Corey Gardner's office to protest his policies. He had them pulled out of their wheelchairs, dragged down the hall, and beaten by his staff. He's no longer a senator (thank God), but I wouldn't put the same behavior past Trump and his goons.
Of course, such awful stuff is expected to happen in times like this. That’s why AARP and other agencies that support seniors should make sure to provide security measures and/or to arm those that wish to join a protest movement.
Sorta already happened... When Trump was campaigning in 2020 he held a rally in the town where my disabled adult son lives. In an attempt to be an educated voter, my son attended the rally, having also attended a Biden rally some weeks previously. Some of Trump's staff spotted him in his wheelchair and asked him if he'd like to be on stage with Trump. He agreed so they carried him in his chair to the stage and positioned him (for the cameras no doubt) slightly to the right of the lectern Trump would be using. Eventually Trump showed up and began making his way toward the lectern, stopped, turned back behind the curtain, gesturing and speaking to aides. Next thing my son knew he was being carried off the stage and back down into the audience as he overhead other Trump staff saying Trump didn't want to be on stage with a disabled person.
That’s bologna and you know it. Trump ain’t gonna touch Medicare, Medicaid or social security unless it’s to improve them. He’s been clear on that.
He might cut some DOE.. but they’ve failed and deserve firing. I have 3 kids in the public school system and they’re all coming out in the next school year because I’m fed up with their underperformance.
I hope you're correct that it's "all bologna" about SS and Medicare. I too have 3 kids in public schools. Two of them have learning disabilities. I am very happy with the education they are receiving. Just because some politicians have been undermining public schools, doesn't mean the entire public school system should be flushed down the toilet.
Gaetz will not become AG. That was only done to give him a different reason to immediately resign from Congress, i.e., other than the obvious reason, which is to avoid the release of the Congressional Ethics Committee report on him. And, of course, he’s dumb enough to think that no one will figure that out!
He withdrew from the World Health Organization in the first time around, and refused to listen to the CDC. . . Probably thought they were part of the "deep state".
That's why Trump wants RFK's worm. He will feed it to the Flu Birds and create a vaccine. Trump will then sell at Farmers Markets to his MAGA cult. Just say"n.
Wonder how many will die. By party. But maybe his party will see it as the will of god. They should be denied f what we don’t get. Maybe fined for leaving the country for it? My opinion. I know many people are who need their healthcare and will
defend their right to it. How silly all the above sounds. But if he takes the oath of office and doesn’t uphold it what then? How silly the above sounds except for those of us who live in the real world. 😳
Darwin in action? We could encourage Republicans to pay close attention to everything he and his department says and to follow each guideline to the letter.
I do not plan to exit the country. I hope to live long enough to help
Make a difference by being a good neighbor,by voting ,by speaking out and by not being complacent. What I’ve done so far has not been enough I guess. But I am doing what I can. I make efforts to stay informed so I know when I’m being hoodwinked. And you?
People are still being disabled from COVID. This is exactly what happens when capitalism is prioritized over care. And maga will take this to an extreme, no doubt.
Good luck! I was a little hesitant; but got both flu and Covid booster this week on Monday! Well it helped me sleep great for 2 nights; which is not always the case, haha! Some sort of feeling off and a bit weird the day after and a tiny bit of nausea and weakness yesterday; and the sore arm thing, but today I'm great !
Trump wants to destroy all depts within the government and then install his puppet authoritarian government- he will say - SEE … these depts don’t work under democracy - let’s just have everything controlled by the executive branch - like Trump knows how to run a company or a bunch of depts with 100,000 employees
Mary Sinker, Heritage's Project 2025. If your goal for your nominees is to destroy agencies or the mission or policies of them, then it's a lot easier these days finding unqualified, destructive lunatics.
But he's not intelligent enough to know what the job requires in any of these situations. He surrounds himself with lawyers who tell him what to do to stay out of prison; this is how he does everything.
The oligarchs are pulling the strings. The Heritage Foundation gave him names of judges to nominate. Putin, Erdogan, & Orban have showed him how to become a dictator after an election. Unqualified, loyalists fill his cabinet & important posts.
Had Biden ever run an org with 100,00 direct reports? Obama? Nope. Neither of them. Trump has over 22,000 people in his employ… and if you understand employee infrastructure for 20k, you can scale to 100k… and where do you get 100k anyway? The government employs MILLIONS.
Thanks for this. I’m really scared as someone who relies on Medicaid for major depression treatment. He has spoken against psych meds before. It’s getting harder to try to imagine Trump isn’t going to give us anything less than exactly what he promised. EEK!
I really had to look at when this was released because I thought it must be old. This is exactly what he promised he’d do. I don’t understand how it’s not exactly what we expect.
Trump is and has always been anti-institution. I don’t think there’s an institution of any sort— schools, lawyers, law enforcement, military, postal service, banks, healthcare—that he supports. He thumbs his nose at every one of them. And now he has the chance to destroy or corrupt everything. Such perversity!
Wow how he'll feel if he himself needs healthcare, and it has been destroyed? On the other hand, it would probably be kept around just for ruling elites.
He thinks he knows what he’s doing and that everything will somehow work out. Hey, in the past when NOTHING he’s ever done has worked out he’s had 2 plays: 1) Run to daddy for more money, or 2) file for bankruptcy. Oh wait, those won’t work here????
I'm sick with each new Trump appointment announcement but whats even more disgusting is the supposed "surprise" that follows. We knew what he would do.
Tomorrow’s Headline: Trump taps Nostradamus to lead NOAA, Scrooge McDuck to head the Department of Labor, and Marjorie Taylor Greene to oversee the Department of Education.
The shock value of any action by Donald J Trump is long past. In fact, I’d be shocked if he appointed a knowledgeable expert to ANY position in his administration. He insults the Americans who elected him every day by nominating clowns,fools, and bootlickers to important appointments in service to the American people.
His voters trusted him with their economy, which he is preparing to implode. They trusted him to improve their lives, and he rewards them with the promise of misery, illness, and national humiliation. If you have not written your Senator, do it right now. Remind them to whom they owe their job, and ask them (nicely!) to do it. Also remind them of who enjoys presidential immunity and who does not, and that their failure to act in good faith on our behalf will have consequences. The roar of many voices can drown out the self-serving bleating of one butthurt septuagenarian.
This is intentional, not dementia. He’ll tear down our institutions and actively hurt people if it gives him unchecked power and ability to enrich himself. That’s who he is.
As for those people who already are or are likely to experience buyers remorse after voting for him I have zero sympathy or empathy.
They knew what he was when they cast their ballots and somehow thought he was fit to lead.
They knew this:
1. Serial adjudicated rapist
2. Convicted of business fraud
3. Convicted felon on 34 counts for election interference.
4. Indicted for insurrection
5. Indicted under the espionage act
6. Indicted in Georgia on RICO charges.
He’s declared war on women, minorities and poor people but somehow people thought he’d make things better for them. He won’t!
He is a vile, evil manifestation of a human. A weak little man who will wreak havoc at every opportunity.
They knew. They know. They’ll have to learn to suck up the hellscape they’ve inflicted on all of us.
It's not rocket science. The oligarch's agenda is very straightforward: Keep 'em poor (replace taxes on the wealthy and corporations with tariffs, paid by the consumer); keep 'em dumb (abolish DOE); keep 'em pregnant (nationwide abortion ban, abolish right to contraception); keep 'em sick (put an antivaxx lunatic in charge of HHS.) That way no one has any energy to rise up and roll out the guillotines. Works for Putin, too, you say? Well, duh. Why do you think he's always on the phone with Musk?
I am a retired maternal-child nurse who has long advocated for vaccines. And while I have the attention of anyone reading this, please, if you are > 65 or have a chronic respiratory illness get the RSV Vaccination. PLEASE The reason it is a 'new vaccine" at least for adults is because until last year there was no adult formulation. At thIs time one vaccination seems to carry long term immunity.
Like every one else I am disgusted and frustrated by Trumps many picks for cabinet posts. I am not sure who's the worst.
But at least you made me laugh in reading your post just now with your reference to Jaba the Hut's cafe'! LET'S GET THE FORCE WITH US!
In the long-standing, Republican tradition of putting people that will do the most damage in charge, we should not be surprised.
Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane. They are aiding and abetting the destruction of the country. At some point, Republicans will beg Democrats to vote for Trumps next impeachment.
Trump is filling the government with loons, traitors, slackers, fools, blunderers and corrupt plutocrats.
This is his plan: make every pick crazier than the previous pick so we forget the previous crazy pick.
Next up, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. 🤦
America is screwed!
That's why I will be wearing this "Happy to Be The Enemy Within!" shirt 👇
libtees-2.creator-spring.com/listing/enwith
Now more than ever!
…so we forget the previous crazy pick and, amidst all the the outrage, overlook the more sinister ones — like Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Flooding the zone with shit continues.
don't forget steven miller. another dangerous one.
how's about marjtraitorgreen for education secretary?
bobert for transportation?
when is gym jordan gonna get something? locker room attendant in the white house gym?
Or Hulk Hogun for secretary of labor.
These are the perfect people, if your goal is to destroy the government. But health? He want to destroy the health of the people too? But, but, but, if we stop making medicines, there will not be any for him either. Oh, I forgot... he doesn't know how to think anything through.
DJT, and his Flock of Deranged, will always be able to get the Medicines that they will need... Remember how DJT got COVID in 2020, was AirLifted out, received very restricted Experimental Medicines, and had a Team of over 10-Doctors.... DJT was back within a Week.. All at Tax-Payer Expense.... How many of Us would have those Benefits?
Putin’s puppet.
Heather, I share your concerns, however, becoming fearful will not solve our problems. We must start having more direct, in-person dialogue with folks we encounter and ask key questions: Why do you think a situation is so? What do you wish to see happen? How is this impacting your life? Dialogue can actually lead to friendship and consensus! We must never think we have a monoply on truth. Don't let today's events control your emotions. Take care--life is brief!
I think you are severely underestimating what is going on here
Too late for dialogue.
I hope. But for the most part, like arguing with a drunk. Or a cult member. Sadly
Well said and very well written.
Thanks, I'll order one now. Perhaps I'll design one (I'm female) that says: THIS MORNING I WAS BENJAMIN, THEN I WENT TO SCHOOL AND NOW LOOK.
that is really funny!
Won't that tee just make it easier to round you up for re-education?
better buy a weapon
Saying “America is screwed”, is not inspiring.
I want one!
Putins puppet.
"Republicans who go along with these nominations are insane." Well thanks to Free Speech, you can say this but that doesn't make it true. The sentence is only nine words cast into a soup of quadrillions. Hope my old shirt fits.
We are not insane. Do you understand what being shrewd is?
This is part of a war against government, that began with that demented horse's ass Ronald Reagan. If government screws up, then any government must be bad, right? It's a pattern.
Why are Republicans so opposed to government? Simple, government collects taxes. Why did Adam Smith (in case you don't remember, he was the inventor of capitalism) so in favor of taxes? Because taxes would prevent people like Elon Musk from becoming so powerful that they would buy the government and distort the market.
Welcome to the new world of Socialism for the Rich, for what else is not paying your taxes than government welfare for the Rich?
Elon Musk is a Welfare Queen. Let him freeze his balls on Mars.
He can go there and drink chloraquinn, or some such right-wing concoction, while he texts to X about his new department:
The Department for Employment of Corruption And Dirty Evil Tricks . . .DECADENCE
After he buys CNN (??!!) will he go after Boeing?
Miriam - with his record on tesla quality, i wouldn't want to fly in boeing planes. actually, i don't now either.
Make him get a vasectomy so he can stop having children. His oldest is a trans and he doesn't have a relation with her.
I don't remember Ronnie being this awful or dumb!!! Yes, tax the super wealth at the same % I pay. In fact everyone should pay the same % to be fair, and equal.
Allow me to assist: Reagan is “the government IS the problem” guy. He’s the guy who set the wheels in motion to create the plutocracy that we live in now and laid the groundwork for Trump’s plan to destroy the administrative state. Does that help a little?
I agree, Reagan also deregulated corporations which started their exodus to China and tens of thousands of our factories closed. Reagan also led to the Bush dynasty which led to Iraq.... it goes on and on and here we are.
Penny, the flat tax is just bullshit. People need to pay a progressive tax. The more you make, the higher the PERCENTAGE tax you pay. Otherwise, everyone would pay what the poorest pay, i.e., 5-10%, and the country would collapse. But don't take my word for it, read Adam Smith and Thomas Piketty (you can skip Karl Marx).
Oh, and by the way, Ronnie was just awful.
My sister lived in Santa Barbara and they would go to his ranch. Took the whole police force to get them in place. Also I thought he was sick alot and Nancy was making his decisions. At least that was expressed by some.
Trump is sick. He has dementia.
I was just throwing an idea out there. another thing that could equalize is taking away the deductions. I am sure the super wealth have more.
Please re analyze your memory and put in place what’s since. Plain as day.
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Melvin Laird, Ed Meese, John Mitchell, Spiro Agnew. These new appointees will fit right in.
Actually, these new appointees are many orders of magnitude worse. At least the ones you mention were living more-or-less in reality.
You're right about that. We are truly in the upside-down when Richard Nixon looks good.
Not good, just able to be dealt with.
Had to chuckle involuntarily reading this as the last statement was placed so very well correctly. Would be funny if not so sadly true.
"Creatures and Characters", indeed.
If you look at the top photo in my latest Creatures and Characters post, you will see that it's appropriate. (This is not a plug for my Substack. I have 19 followers and will probably never have many more than that.)
Well, most of these guys are dead except Cheney? Message?
I was responding to the person who said Republicans have a ling tradition of putting people in charge who will do the most damage.
And they DO, but mostly in the past, they wanted to make sure they could loot the economy, not crash and burn the whole thing. These bozos are just NUTS. Not even in the same league …
Egad. Scary damned dudes.
You're right, Pat. It beggars belief.
WTF is it with the Re-thug-licans? What kind of mental aberration drives them to want to lord it over our welfare and do us harm? Is malignant narcistic behavior part of their vetting process? I believe everyone subscribing to their madness needs to be assessed and placed under rigorous therapy.
Yes, Reagan told everyone the gov't was the problem then got elected to break it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
“All the rainbows in the sky,
start to weep and say goodbye.
You won’t be seeing rainbows anymore.”
Interim appointments.
Nothing new, except getting even worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
Also watch todays interview with Rachel Maddow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JArvEJ64M
the good die young.
I'm a fan of Roy, My favorite is he and KD Lang singing Crying.
🎯👍
Yes, remember Reagan's appalling cabinet with Ed Meese, Ann Gorsuch, James Watt, Bob Casey....But this is worse. You could pretend that Watt was not a fundamentalist lunatic.
Welcome to epidemics, disabilities from diseases like polio and measles, and lots of childhood deaths. Could it get any worse? It probably will, sadly.
And deaths of senior citizens
And I am a senior on Medicare. The next 4 years will be hell.
Ditto. But, I'm still smarter & sharper than many of these Trump loyalists and I'm not ready to capitulate. Hope you aren't either. Community action is the goal.
Hear you loud and clear, Greta ! Music to.these old ears!
Fight like hell for SINGLE PAYOR HEALTH...MEDICARE FOR ALL.
Fight who? We’ve got 4 years before we can try for that again.
Same and running financial scenarios in an attempt to have Plans A, B, C-Z in place. So far none of those plans will ensure my survival. Only comfort is that I will not be alone.
Trump and his minions are planning to kill us with chaos. They’re making us confused and worried about our health, our financial well-being and our children’s education. They’d like to turn neighbor against neighbor just as the Nazis did when even children were recruited to rat out their own family members for baseless accusations. Day by day this picture is getting uglier and Trump hasn’t even got to the White House yet. We must tune out all this gibberish and focus on how we can empower mass disobedience to this mad man’s whims to save our own lives and democracy.
It all starts in the community, where you live: join forces with others, get people talking from both sides of the isle, remain upbeat!
Create hyper-local Mutual Aid networks. Solidarity, not charity. Share resources. Create Time Banks. Seek out the most vulnerable in your communities and learn their stories. Stay together.
Yes.. that same thinking was what I Pondering on today...
Instead of cutting social security and Medicare, we get rid of those who use it. So sneaky and ingenious.
That m'dear, is the point. Kill 'em off and grab the money...Social Security, Medicare.
If you recognize the point, you are unfortunately among the few. Most are in denial, most are unarmed, most plan to "endure" and will discover the reality too late to strike back
Oh, yeah, it will get worse. Trump's tariffs will cause hyper-inflation. The GOP's denial of climate change will cause more natural disasters, and he'll probably disband FEMA. Gaetz will proclaim that rape, sexual abuse, and sexual harassment are not crimes since he enjoys them so much. The new Stasi will arrest anyone who utters a word of defiance. And, no doubt, more wonderful events.
I forgot to add that Trump, Musk, and his "efficiency" department will end Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Prepare to see seniors dying in the streets.
I'm the proverbial grey-haired little old lady. My superpower is that they don't see me coming. I'm used to being underestimated and that gets me the upper hand. mwahaha! We have the strength of numbers, folks, so DO NOT DISPAIR, DO NOT PREEMPTIVELY CAPITULATE.
Right on Greta Murphy!
I have white hair, I'm told a very kindly face, on the chubby side, "nice and sweet" say acquaintances, underestimated all the damned time, and at 76 I can still hit what I'm aiming at. It's fun to watch their mouths drop open and hear the, "holy xxxx, did you see that?"
Greta, that is why I joined this Substack. I struggle to find people in my community who are tuned in. I gain strength from reading these comments.
Only if you are heavily armed and organized
This senior isn't going alone....
Yep, me either.
Prepare to see an army of seniors staging a revolution! They will go to Washington with their walkers, wheelchairs and scooters.
What a empowering colorful vision you paint.for.our mind's eye , Suzanne !
Gray Grannies United! Have Spirit! Will March.!
Gee, I wonder what AARP would have to say about that? Maybe they should see that everyone of those seniors are armed?
Sorry to be such a downer, but I live in Denver. A few years ago, disabled people met in Corey Gardner's office to protest his policies. He had them pulled out of their wheelchairs, dragged down the hall, and beaten by his staff. He's no longer a senator (thank God), but I wouldn't put the same behavior past Trump and his goons.
Of course, such awful stuff is expected to happen in times like this. That’s why AARP and other agencies that support seniors should make sure to provide security measures and/or to arm those that wish to join a protest movement.
Sorta already happened... When Trump was campaigning in 2020 he held a rally in the town where my disabled adult son lives. In an attempt to be an educated voter, my son attended the rally, having also attended a Biden rally some weeks previously. Some of Trump's staff spotted him in his wheelchair and asked him if he'd like to be on stage with Trump. He agreed so they carried him in his chair to the stage and positioned him (for the cameras no doubt) slightly to the right of the lectern Trump would be using. Eventually Trump showed up and began making his way toward the lectern, stopped, turned back behind the curtain, gesturing and speaking to aides. Next thing my son knew he was being carried off the stage and back down into the audience as he overhead other Trump staff saying Trump didn't want to be on stage with a disabled person.
A stout walking stick makes for a good club, if the senior citizen has enough arm strength or gets mad enough.
!!!!!!
WHAT?! I wish this had been filmed...oh right, that doesn't seem to matter.
Huh, this really happened? What year? I don't recall learning this from the national news media.
" beatin my his staff"
I hope law suits were flying.
yep
That’s bologna and you know it. Trump ain’t gonna touch Medicare, Medicaid or social security unless it’s to improve them. He’s been clear on that.
He might cut some DOE.. but they’ve failed and deserve firing. I have 3 kids in the public school system and they’re all coming out in the next school year because I’m fed up with their underperformance.
I hope you're correct that it's "all bologna" about SS and Medicare. I too have 3 kids in public schools. Two of them have learning disabilities. I am very happy with the education they are receiving. Just because some politicians have been undermining public schools, doesn't mean the entire public school system should be flushed down the toilet.
Gaetz will not become AG. That was only done to give him a different reason to immediately resign from Congress, i.e., other than the obvious reason, which is to avoid the release of the Congressional Ethics Committee report on him. And, of course, he’s dumb enough to think that no one will figure that out!
It's reasonable to ask, how will teamTrump address the H5N1 Bird Flu epidemic-- which appears to be building in growing numbers of host species?
WILL THERE BE A REPLAY OF Trump's deadly BUNGLING in Covid-19 pandemic?
"Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
He withdrew from the World Health Organization in the first time around, and refused to listen to the CDC. . . Probably thought they were part of the "deep state".
Where does he get such shit? Steve Bananon?
trump is a lot of things but a genius is not.
You better believe someone is pulling his strings.
That's why Trump wants RFK's worm. He will feed it to the Flu Birds and create a vaccine. Trump will then sell at Farmers Markets to his MAGA cult. Just say"n.
Wonder how many will die. By party. But maybe his party will see it as the will of god. They should be denied f what we don’t get. Maybe fined for leaving the country for it? My opinion. I know many people are who need their healthcare and will
defend their right to it. How silly all the above sounds. But if he takes the oath of office and doesn’t uphold it what then? How silly the above sounds except for those of us who live in the real world. 😳
He would take the oath and not have one iota of hesitation to break it.
Darwin in action? We could encourage Republicans to pay close attention to everything he and his department says and to follow each guideline to the letter.
Maybe it’s Darwin’s waiting room and their numbers will come up shortly.
Darwin’s theory actually means adaptation. Something the orange one’s and co. have not a single idea. A 34 felony count conviction Presidency.
Oh, but the felony count will be erased just like many wish about U.S. history.
It’s pretty sad but do not intend to let my family suffer so he can thrive.
Please share your plan Sharon so we can be enlightened? Are you seeing to exit the country, fight, or what?
I do not plan to exit the country. I hope to live long enough to help
Make a difference by being a good neighbor,by voting ,by speaking out and by not being complacent. What I’ve done so far has not been enough I guess. But I am doing what I can. I make efforts to stay informed so I know when I’m being hoodwinked. And you?
Sure. He will say "Jump three feet and scratch your head" . . .and they will.
The first time around many took hes advice and drank sterilizing agents.
And your teeth will rot when they ditch fluoride.
Wrong, the decline in child IQ is due to fluoride, their drop in cavities was due to brushing
If you LISTEN...he is not anti-vax. We have 'progressed' from 3 to 73 childhood vaccines for our little people!!
And my granddaughters get them all.
Bravo to preventive medicine!
https://open.substack.com/pub/immunologic/p/rfk-jr-as-hhs-secretary-will-be-catastrophic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4d8hb
His new department:
Dept of enabling epidemics: Pushing stupid harmful, idiotic trash. DEEP SHIT
People are still being disabled from COVID. This is exactly what happens when capitalism is prioritized over care. And maga will take this to an extreme, no doubt.
I sure am glad that I've already gotten my COVID abs flu shots! Holy shit!
*and flu shots
If you can come up with a shot that will give us all abs...! 😂😂😂
Now that is funny. I needed a good laugh today. Thank you sincerely.
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I hate autocorrect so much!
I agree with you, though. I'd be rich! 🤣🤣
hahahaha!
I"ve had my flu shot already and receiving my new Covid shot November 21 so the weekend I will be staying home.
Good luck! I was a little hesitant; but got both flu and Covid booster this week on Monday! Well it helped me sleep great for 2 nights; which is not always the case, haha! Some sort of feeling off and a bit weird the day after and a tiny bit of nausea and weakness yesterday; and the sore arm thing, but today I'm great !
Trump wants to destroy all depts within the government and then install his puppet authoritarian government- he will say - SEE … these depts don’t work under democracy - let’s just have everything controlled by the executive branch - like Trump knows how to run a company or a bunch of depts with 100,000 employees
I don't think that he has the smarts (or the attention span) to mastermind this....so who's figuring it out for him?
Steve Bannon-makes Trump seem like a boy scout
The heritage foundation.
Musk.
steve bannon
It's Bannon. Steve Bannon is a monster, but he's no idiot.
Musk is dumber than a sack of rocks.
Mary Sinker, Heritage's Project 2025. If your goal for your nominees is to destroy agencies or the mission or policies of them, then it's a lot easier these days finding unqualified, destructive lunatics.
He's not stupid -- he's just not as smart as he thinks he is.
And he's had 4 years to work on it.
But he's not intelligent enough to know what the job requires in any of these situations. He surrounds himself with lawyers who tell him what to do to stay out of prison; this is how he does everything.
A man-child gifted $1,000,000 who COULD HAVE been an ACTUAL billionaire had he simply invested it. He LOST IT because he is a "FUCKING MORON."
Well, that "FUCKING MORON" is going to be POTUS. Knowing he's a moron doesn't make me feel any better about that. If it keeps you warm at night, fine.
Well, sorry but he IS stupid, the worst kind of stupid… the kind who thinks he’s a genius!
Project 2025.
Stephen Miller
The oligarchs are pulling the strings. The Heritage Foundation gave him names of judges to nominate. Putin, Erdogan, & Orban have showed him how to become a dictator after an election. Unqualified, loyalists fill his cabinet & important posts.
Now that does make me think. Give me a minute.
Had Biden ever run an org with 100,00 direct reports? Obama? Nope. Neither of them. Trump has over 22,000 people in his employ… and if you understand employee infrastructure for 20k, you can scale to 100k… and where do you get 100k anyway? The government employs MILLIONS.
Thanks for this. I’m really scared as someone who relies on Medicaid for major depression treatment. He has spoken against psych meds before. It’s getting harder to try to imagine Trump isn’t going to give us anything less than exactly what he promised. EEK!
Why are you surprised? It’s what he told us he would do!
I really had to look at when this was released because I thought it must be old. This is exactly what he promised he’d do. I don’t understand how it’s not exactly what we expect.
And so his MAGATs feel justified...for now.
Sadly, yes. 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Trump is and has always been anti-institution. I don’t think there’s an institution of any sort— schools, lawyers, law enforcement, military, postal service, banks, healthcare—that he supports. He thumbs his nose at every one of them. And now he has the chance to destroy or corrupt everything. Such perversity!
If many of them weren't already corrupt, he'd have been barred from running for office in 2021.
Wow how he'll feel if he himself needs healthcare, and it has been destroyed? On the other hand, it would probably be kept around just for ruling elites.
He thinks he knows what he’s doing and that everything will somehow work out. Hey, in the past when NOTHING he’s ever done has worked out he’s had 2 plays: 1) Run to daddy for more money, or 2) file for bankruptcy. Oh wait, those won’t work here????
Are the hunger games coming?
I'm sick with each new Trump appointment announcement but whats even more disgusting is the supposed "surprise" that follows. We knew what he would do.
Tomorrow’s Headline: Trump taps Nostradamus to lead NOAA, Scrooge McDuck to head the Department of Labor, and Marjorie Taylor Greene to oversee the Department of Education.
The latter department nominee is Tiffany Justice of Mom’s For Liberty infamy.
Hestgetting rid of the DOE
He’s
Hubris? Umm no, it's setting up a mass murder
The shock value of any action by Donald J Trump is long past. In fact, I’d be shocked if he appointed a knowledgeable expert to ANY position in his administration. He insults the Americans who elected him every day by nominating clowns,fools, and bootlickers to important appointments in service to the American people.
His voters trusted him with their economy, which he is preparing to implode. They trusted him to improve their lives, and he rewards them with the promise of misery, illness, and national humiliation. If you have not written your Senator, do it right now. Remind them to whom they owe their job, and ask them (nicely!) to do it. Also remind them of who enjoys presidential immunity and who does not, and that their failure to act in good faith on our behalf will have consequences. The roar of many voices can drown out the self-serving bleating of one butthurt septuagenarian.
When the jokes write themselves.
Welcome to the pro-polio party.
Except they’re really not funny
This is intentional, not dementia. He’ll tear down our institutions and actively hurt people if it gives him unchecked power and ability to enrich himself. That’s who he is.
As for those people who already are or are likely to experience buyers remorse after voting for him I have zero sympathy or empathy.
They knew what he was when they cast their ballots and somehow thought he was fit to lead.
They knew this:
1. Serial adjudicated rapist
2. Convicted of business fraud
3. Convicted felon on 34 counts for election interference.
4. Indicted for insurrection
5. Indicted under the espionage act
6. Indicted in Georgia on RICO charges.
He’s declared war on women, minorities and poor people but somehow people thought he’d make things better for them. He won’t!
He is a vile, evil manifestation of a human. A weak little man who will wreak havoc at every opportunity.
They knew. They know. They’ll have to learn to suck up the hellscape they’ve inflicted on all of us.
I’m done making excuses for them at this point.
718 days to the midterms if we make it that far.
AMEN to this!!! they knew they know !!!!!!!
It's not rocket science. The oligarch's agenda is very straightforward: Keep 'em poor (replace taxes on the wealthy and corporations with tariffs, paid by the consumer); keep 'em dumb (abolish DOE); keep 'em pregnant (nationwide abortion ban, abolish right to contraception); keep 'em sick (put an antivaxx lunatic in charge of HHS.) That way no one has any energy to rise up and roll out the guillotines. Works for Putin, too, you say? Well, duh. Why do you think he's always on the phone with Musk?
The Star Wars bar scene continues!
No, that had cool music.
I am a retired maternal-child nurse who has long advocated for vaccines. And while I have the attention of anyone reading this, please, if you are > 65 or have a chronic respiratory illness get the RSV Vaccination. PLEASE The reason it is a 'new vaccine" at least for adults is because until last year there was no adult formulation. At thIs time one vaccination seems to carry long term immunity.
Like every one else I am disgusted and frustrated by Trumps many picks for cabinet posts. I am not sure who's the worst.
But at least you made me laugh in reading your post just now with your reference to Jaba the Hut's cafe'! LET'S GET THE FORCE WITH US!
We need The Force. Remember that whole endless battle between Empire and resistance?
My daughter said that we just reached the end of episode 3 "Revenge of the Sith".